The price of fame
They may seem glamorous and untouchable now, but msny celebs once toiled in the trenches like your ordinary Joes and Janes. Take Brad Pitt. Before stardom, there was a chicken suit. "I wound up in a giant chicken costume, making clucking sounds, trying to lure cumstomers into an El Pollo fast-food restaraunt," he confessed. Cosmopolitan magazine recounts a few of the other jobs celebrities held before breaking through:
Sandra Bullock: "For 2 1/2 years I worked in an ice cream parlor. I was so poor, so breakfast, lunch and dinner was ice cream. I gained a lovely, hefty 20 pounds."
Dennis Quaid: "I learned one thing when I was a clown at AstroWorld: Kids hate clowns.... They kick you and hit you and spit at you and throw their cokes at you. It's a terrible job."
Robert Redford: "Early on, I got fired from a supermarket becuase I couldn't stuff groceries in a bag. At Sandard Oil refinery, they canned me when they caught me sleeping in the trenches, and I was fireds from a couple of jobs as a carpenters apprentice because I was always crawling under the foundation to grab some sleep."
Sean Connery: "For one six-month period, I worked as a coffin polisher."
Rosie Perez: "As a waitress in Brooklyn, I used to insult my cutomers on a daily basis, and they would tip before they sat down. They loved the abuse."
Mariah Carey: "It was the pits working in a salon, sweeping up hair. What made it worse was that the manager wanted every female working there to have a cute, phony name, like Foxy or Stormy. He decided I would be Echo."